[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 184573] New: [GTK] Webkit should spoof as Safari on a Mac for Outlook.com

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184573

            Bug ID: 184573
           Summary: [GTK] Webkit should spoof as Safari on a Mac for
                    Outlook.com
           Product: WebKit
           Version: Other
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebKit Gtk
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: rfarmer84 at outlook.com
                CC: bugs-noreply at webkitgtk.org

I originally opened this as a bug on GNOME Web, but was told to open one here.

When you visit Outlook.com in GNOME Web with default user agent, you get a "basic" version of the webmail site which is intended for obsolete web browsers.

According to Microsoft, the only supported browsers are Internet Explorer, Edge, Safari, and Chrome, and it seems like anything else is an "unknown" that gets the bare bones site.

In fact, spoofing the UA as Safari 11.1 on a Mac loads the full version, which works fine. According to a similar bug related to Google websites, Webkit tells Google that it is Chromium so it'll load the full site and shut up about spamming the user to get Chrome. Apparently, Michael Catanzaro hit a wall trying to get Google to stop doing this on their end, and it's likely a lost cause trying to get Microsoft to stop this idiocy as well.

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